Temporary/variable hour employees

Temporary employee/variable hour employee

Temporary employees and
variable hour employees are employees who primarily work in temporary non-benefit
eligible positions. Temporary positions are those positions not intended to
continue indefinitely or whose hours vary and are not positions that offer
benefits.

Temporary positions may be filled by employees
that are classified in a wide range of variable hour employment categories,
including student employment, graduate assistantship, temporary hourly/salaried employment and part-time faculty.

Expectations for variable hour employee

Variable hour employees can work an average of 29 hours or less per week in a one-year period. If an employee is holding multiple positions, the work hours must be averaged collectively.

With the exception of the part-time faculty, if variable hour employees (student workers, graduate
assistants, temporary hourly employees, and salaried
temporary employees) work over 40 hour in a week, they must be compensated at a one-and-a-half times the hourly rate for all hours over 40.

monitor their credit hours to maintain their part-time faculty status.

are subject to Arizona State Retirement System participation,
if they work 20 hours or more per week for 20 weeks or more in a fiscal
year from July 1 through June 30 (teach under seven credits in a regular semester).